Science: Furry Funnels

Polar bears are white because that is nature's way of camouflaging them
in the snowy Arctic. Right? Not necessarily, says a scientist at the
U.S. Army Research and Development Command in Natick, Mass. After
studying the furry beasts, Physical Chemist Malcolm Henry finds that
polar-bear hairs are really transparent and only appear to be white.
What is more, he says, man can probably benefit by copying this
peculiar characteristic.

Henry became bullish on polar bears quite accidentally. After reading in
National Geographic about the work of the University of Oslo's Nils
Oritsland, Henry was surprised to learn that...